SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 14, 2017 – The Women Forward in Technology Scholarship Program, founded by the Foundry Group, Techstars, Cooley, AWS, GreatHorn, Moz, Yesware, Help Scout, Cloudability, Kulesa Faul, FullContact, Anchor Point Fund and Distil Networks, today announced the first 16 recipients of $3,000 scholarships for women in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM).

“Distil Networks is extremely passionate about driving diversity in STEM and is very proud to be a founder of the Women in Technology Scholarship Program,” said Stephani Martin, vice president of people operations at Distil Networks. “It was amazing to connect with so many women through their essays about the female leaders that inspire them and their desire to make the world a better place through technology. We couldn’t be more excited about the initial response and look forward to awarding many more scholarships in the future to promote increased diversity in STEM.”

About Women Forward in Technology Scholarship ProgramFounded by Distil Networks, Foundry Group, Techstars, Cooley, Yesware, Help Scout, Cloudability, Kulesa Faul, FullContact and Anchor Point Fund, the Women Forward in Technology Scholarship Program promotes diversity within the STEM workforce. The program is designed to encourage women to pursue a career in technology, minimizing the gender gap. The program awards multiple $3,000 scholarships to female graduate and undergraduate students annually. For more information or to make a donation, please visit https://www.distilnetworks.com/women-forward-in-technology-scholarship/.

About Distil NetworksDistil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, is the only proactive and precise way to verify that legitimate human users are accessing your website, mobile app, and APIs. With Distil, you automatically mitigate 100% of OWASP Automated Threats without imposing friction on legitimate users. Distil defends against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transaction fraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, click fraud, denial of service, and API abuse while slashing the high tax that bots place on your internal teams and web infrastructure. Get complete visibility and control over human, good bot, and bad bot traffic, and make your online applications more secure with comprehensive bot defense. Distil Bot Defense for Web protects your website by verifying human traffic on real browsers. Distil Bot Defense for API prevents bots from accessing your API servers, whether it be through web or mobile. Distil Analyst Managed Service assigns a dedicated team of security analysts to manage your bot defense program.

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